Travel Blogs from Malvern

... time out from our careers and do/see those things we always wanted to do/see – it is all too easy to never pursue these travel goals. The plan now is to move back to the USA, visa permitting for John. John is looking to study for a PhD at Wharton and Terrie is hoping to do some more consulting work and get an academic position on the East Coast of the USA. Life is an adventure and just as one chapter ends another ...

Many of you know I am going to India on business. Specifically Pune, India. Pune is 2 hours by plane west of Mumbai. My software quality assurance team resides there. This log is to document this momentous trip. On the way, we, my co-workers, Burke and Cliff, are stopping at Agra to visit the Taj Mahal. We are staying in New Delhi before heading up to Pune.

In the afternoon we walked from the Ben Franklin Institute to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was cool to see the Rocky statue and the steps that he ran up in the movie. It was tainted by the incredible herds of people running up the steps and then pretending they were Rocky when they reached the top seriously in need ...

... as we may no be here to tell you what grandma and grandpa experienced.

Coincidentally, my grandfather left a document for my father when he died in 1925. It was a map with Korean writing. I inherited the document when my father died in 1973. For decades, I thought the old document on rice paper was a map of Korea identifying the burial sites of my ancestors. About 15 years ago, a Korean friend translated it for me. It was not a map of ancestral ...